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    • Aug 13, 1924
    Vernon Dalhart records "The Wreck Of The Old '97" and "The Prisoner's Song" in New York. The two sides form the first million-selling single in country music history
    Sep 1, 1924
    Ernest Stoneman passes an audition with Columbia Records in New York. He declines an offer to record for the label, however, when he receives a better deal the next day from Okeh
    Sep 2, 1924
    A day after auditioning for Columbia Records in New York, Ernest Stoneman has a similar meeting with Ralph Peer at Okeh Records. He agrees to a deal with Okeh, bringing him $110, including expenses, for recording two songs
    Sep 2, 1924
    "Rose-Marie" makes its Broadway debut. The show's title song--written by Rudolf Friml, Oscar Hammerstein and Otto Harbach--becomes a country hit for Slim Whitman 30 years later
    Sep 5, 1924
    Ernest Stoneman holds his first recording session, cutting two songs for Okeh Records in New York, including "The Titanic." Neither title is released
    Sep 25, 1924
    Songwriter Diane Lampert is born in The Bronx, New York. She authors Juice Newton's "Break It To Me Gently," plus Carl Smith's "Your Name Is Beautiful" and Billy "Crash" Craddock's "Ain't Nothin' Shakin' (But The Leaves On The Trees)"
    Oct 25, 1924
    Emmett Miller holds his first recording session, at the Okeh Recording Studio in New York, though the results are never released. The minstrel singer influences such country pioneers as Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams
    Jan 8, 1925
    Ernest Stoneman records four songs, including "The Titanic," in New York. They are the first sides commercially released on the singer, who becomes one of the genre's first recording success stories
    Jan 15, 1925
    The Hill Billies record "Old Joe Clark" in New York. The track is used in the 2019 PBS series "Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns"
    Jan 30, 1925
    Aileen Stanley & Gene Austin record the pop hit "When My Sugar Walks Down The Street" in New York City. Ella Fitzgerald's version of the song will reach an early version of Billboard's country chart in 1944
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